Andy Matuschak ponders meditation apps. (more)

Andy Matuschak various notes excerpts on the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. (more)

Term from Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen for one tool they're building. (more)

Andy Matuschak concept - see (2020-02-20) Matuschak On Primer

Andy Matuschak concept: see esp (2020-02-20) Matuschak On Primer

Matt Brockwell: A taxonomy of notes (more)

NadiaEghbal: Reimagining the PhD. I think you can be a researcher in any setting! (more)

Arnold Kling: Andy Matuschak on Books and Learning. (more)

Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen: Timeful Texts. To engage with a book’s ideas over time, readers must remember its details, and that’s already a challenge. One promising solution lies in spaced repetition memory systems (SRS), which allow users to retain large quantities of knowledge reliably and efficiently. Like meditation, these systems involve a daily practice: every day, a reader maintains their memory library by reviewing a few dozen lightweight prompts. (more)

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Adrian Hon on Flat vs. Threaded Discussions. I don’t think that flat discussions, as typically implemented by forums like Discourse or Metafilter, are working well for communities where there is serious disagreement about how discussions should unfold. (more)

key/cliche phrase from improv

WikiStandards page listing the pages changed most recently. For this space, just use the FrontPage.

service for sharing Git-based projects - free for Open Source (more)

Adrian Hon: The Mapping Problem. But here’s the sting in the tail: the Mapping Problem means that even if we’ve solved the Mopping Problem, we haven’t solved the Violin Problem, or the Ironing Problem, or the Bin-Emptying Problem. These are all completely different. (more)

Raphael "Raph" Koster (born September 7, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, computer game designer, and author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design (2004). Koster is widely recognized for his work as the lead designer of Ultima Online[1] and the creative director behind Star Wars Galaxies.[2] From 2006 until 2013 he worked as the founder and president of Metaplace (previously operating as Areae and acquired by social gaming company Playdom in 2010, which was in turn acquired by Disney) producing a Facebook game platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster (more)

author, Reality Is Broken, SuperBetter (more)

Alan Kay: "PointOfView is worth 80 IQ points." (PointsOfViewATributeToAlanKay) (more)

positive expectations for the future (more)

The US President and those beneath him - the group charged with enforcing the laws. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch (more)